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Mr. Grey Will Test You Now, Children
But, speaking of consent, thats exactly what was missing in Pennsylvania this week when a teacher in the Monessen school district gave a handful of 8th-grade students a word find puzzle that was based on the movie. The puzzle asked students to find hidden words such as spanking, paddling, submissive, intercourse, leather cuffs and the like.
When this got out, parents were not pleased. They think its going way too far when a sex and bondage flick becomes a teachable moment in the 8th grade.
Is it possible that Pennsylvania teacher meant no harm? After all, when your school ranks 475th out of the 498 in Pennsylvania, you have do something to whip those kids to attention. And, to be fair, the "word find" puzzle included plenty of other, non-sexy words like "helicopter," "entrepreneur," "bestseller," "physical" and "intimidating". Maybe we're reading too much into the sexy stuff?
We got our hands on a history quiz recently given by the exact same teacher in that exact same school in Pennsylvania. This quiz is creating a similar buzz around the web, with different factions lining up behind whether or not this teacher has been taking things a bit too far in trying to hold those kids' attentions. What do YOU think? Take the quiz yourself and ask, Are Pennsylvania parents overreacting?
Q.1 Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling to Washington on the back of...
A - An envelope
B - A three-humped camel
C - Sally Hemmings
Q.2 Typhoid Mary was famous for spreading...
A - Autism
B - Her legs
C - ISIS
D - Rumors
Q.3 Mount Rushmore was created by...
A - Brute force
B - Continental drift
C - Mason Dixon
D - Some seriously heavy drilling
Q.4 The polio vaccine was discovered by...
A - Accident
B - Dr. Feelgood
C - Rand Paul
D - Jonas Hussein Salk
Q.5 Finish the famous quote by Harry Truman: "If you can't stand the heat..."
A - Take off the rubber dress
B - Get out of Hiroshima
C - Use the safe word
D - Well that's just too damn bad, isn't it?
Q.6 If olive oil comes from olives, and corn oil comes from corn, then baby oil comes from...
A - Kentucky
B - Too much tequila
C - Misunderstanding the rhythm method
D - SIDS
Q.7 Define "suffrage":
A - Women being forced to vote
B - Having to drink the "coffee" in the faculty lounge
C - Finding out too late that the glass dildo has a chip in it
D - Oooh Daddy!
Q.8 Complete this famous opening sentence: "It was the best of times..."
A - Then the batteries died
B - But Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?
C - And all fun and games until someone lost an eye
D - The End
Answers: 1=C 2=B 3=D 4=A 5=C 6=A 7=D 8=D
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)will they revoke my diploma?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,755 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)It is a totally inappropriate use of school resources. We weren't even allowed to print off the lottery numbers!
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/02/13/Monessen-School-District-sorry-pupils-wrongly-given-Fifty-Shades-puzzles/stories/201502130174